Yeonsik Kim, Second Mate

As the second mate onboard, Yeonsik is in charge of sailing the ship and planning the ships route. He is the bridge manager and says the "radar and charts are his babies" Yeonsik wanted a job that would allow him to travel the world so he started sailing on commercial ships in 2010. After visiting more than thirty countries in five years, Yeonsik wanted to find a sailing job that was more meaningful, so he started sailing with Greenpeace in 2015. The Arctic Sunrise is his favorite ship to sail because it can go anywhere. When not working for Greenpeace, he runs an environmental class for tourists on Biyang Island, South Korea.

The crew of the Greenpeace ship MY Arctic Sunrise voyage into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch documenting plastics and other marine debris. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a soupy mix of plastics and microplastics, now twice the size of Texas, in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean.